<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Thanks Yao, </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">I couldn't tell better my feelings on this. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">I'm not against the forum, I did a try, but my feelings is that both are not the same goal. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">We need to keep mailing for some subjects to be discussed with OTP team. And also announcements. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Forum is helpful for helping new comers, creating groups around some applications etc. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Regards </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Envoyé depuis mon mobile </p><br><br>---- Yao Bao a écrit ----<br><br>Hello,<br><br><br><br>Erlang bring us together as a community, we don't share data<br><br>between processes, but we do share love from Erlang.<br><br><br><br>It is not common for programmers say "love" to a programming<br><br>language. Erlang programmers might not use Erlang in daily job,<br><br>but we are willing to put some of our life and energy into this.<br><br>Personally, mainly because of the uncommon beauty of it.<br><br><br><br>Yes, we are still marginal. And this might be the root cause of<br><br>this movement. I can understand it, but why can't we have both?<br><br><br><br>Yes, resources are always limited, and we can't split energy into<br><br>two things equally, this is understandable. But having both, or,<br><br>in a foreseeable future, we might discover some better methods<br><br>to organize our community, then we can say this is the true "rich"<br><br>community. New generations are good and unavoidable, but I<br><br>hope we can keep the old generations as much as we can.<br><br><br><br>Every once in a while, some shiny things appears, and we are<br><br>not against shiny things, they are good, if it is good enough to<br><br>replace the old one entirely, nobody will miss it. We just need<br><br>sometime to prove it.<br><br><br><br>We can deprecate language features, but I hope we do not<br><br>deprecate people. Shiny tools can attract young generations,<br><br>I don't know the story or history about Elixir forums, but I would<br><br>say the biggest difference would be the origin of these two<br><br>languages. Of course it is good to have a try, after receiving the<br><br>new Erlang forums announcement, I give it a try almost<br><br>immediately, and personally prefer this mailing list for now.<br><br><br><br>Although as we see, this mailing list is not very "active", but we<br><br>really care about it. And this might be why some "sad" emotion<br><br>comes along. If we don't care about it, we would not say any word<br><br>about it.<br><br><br><br>I really hope this mailing list is still alive. Maybe one reason would<br><br>be good enough to keep it: old generations are still alive.<br><br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Yao<br><br><br><br>